My New Friend is a…bloodsucking bug?!
"I...don't think I can go any farther..." Bulma panted. We all collapsed in the middle of nowhere.
"Does anyone have a water bottle?" Krillin asked. He looked about to faint. I sighed, "You guys are lucky I'm came. Gentle Springs!" A small stream popped up and I watched everyone lapped it up. "Forever Fruits," I said and watched a tree grow where the sand was still moist.
"Whoa!" Trunks breath with his eyes as big as dinner plates, "How did you do that?"
"I'll tell you later."
"Hey Esther," Goku asked as he stuffed his face with the apples, "Can you...munch*...like move... munch* munch*...sand?"
"If I could...we would've gotten out of here a long time ago," I responded.
"Who's going for plan B now?" Krillin asked.
"I guess it's time to dig," I sighed. After trotting two steps...I thought I heard a teeny tiny voice yelling at me. I must be imagining things.
"Help..." cried a small voice. I twitched my ears.
"Hey Esther, are you okay?" Gohann asked.
"Funny..." I murmured and sifted the sand with my hoof. I uncovered a... mosquito?
"Krillin, can you come here for a second?" I asked.
"Sure. What do you need?" Krillin asked as he ambled over. I dumped the sand and mosquito on his bald head.
"Hey! Esther! What are you doing!" he cried. Krillin now was hopping around tumbling in the dirt trying to smack the thing off.
"Esther...why'd you sell me to a mosquito?" he groaned and tried to scratch his forehead.
"Because you're a human...horse," I answered. Goku and the others trotted up.
"Thanks for the meal," the mosquito squeaked, "I'm Sejun. What are horses doing in this place?" We looked at each other.
"You know where we are?" I asked.
"Sure, we are in the twilight desert," Sejun replied, "By the way...how come you can talk?"
"That's the same question we were gonna ask," Yamcha murmured.
"Well, you see...I used to be human," she started, "But then one night, I saw purple dust and I ended up like this. That farmer that I have no idea who he is."
"Same happened to us," Goku nodded, "Being a horse sucks!"
"Hey, maybe we can work together!" Sejun cried, "I want to be me again and you have the same problem. I'd like to get outta here too."
"Sure!" Goku replied but he got interrupted by Tien.
"Are you sure?" Tien asked.
"What do you mean?"
Tien stared at Goku as if it was pretty obvious.
"We're teaming up with a mosquito here," Krillin murmured.
Silence.
"We need an ally," Goku explained, "Alright. We're teams from now on."
"Goku! How can you ask a measily bug to help us?!" Vegeta roared, "What kind of saiyan would do that? She's only here for our blood!"
"Father, calm down..." Trunks walked closer, "I..." Vegeta kicked him in the back of the head and swiftly and sped off.
"Mirao!" I cried, "Darn that Vegeta." Trunks dropped senseless.
"Yikes. I'd better stay away from the big headed one," Sejun commented.
"Alright. Since we can't go anywhere now, can you tell me what do you mean by twilight desert and if there's a way out?" Gohann asked.
"Alright. Here's what I see," Sejun started, "The twilight desert is a place underneath a dry area. I heard of some legend that told about a boy named Aladdin who once was bribed to this very place to get the genie's lamp."
"This is starting to get ancient," Krillin commented.
"But the guy who asked him to get it cheated on him and left Aladdin to the twilight desert to die," Sejun continued, "Apparently, Aladdin still had the lamp so he kind of tricked the genie for a free wish to get out of here."
"So now the next idea is to find that magical lamp that grants a certain amount of wishes," Yamcha murmured.
"That's sounds kinda like dragonballs," Tien said.
"What are dragonballs?" Sejun asked.
"Long story short," I said quickly, "It's basically pieces of your Aladdin lamp. You find all seven of them and this dragon genie will come and grant you any wish."
"That's so cool!" she cried, "But the story was that the genie was freed and the lamp was destroyed later on."
"Alright. There goes our hope for ever leaving the twilight zone," Krillin sighed.
"What happened to Aladdin?" Bulma asked.
"Well, he got his wish to marry the princess by being a prince," Sejun replied, "The genie couldn't make them fall in love."
"What else can't a genie do?" Gohann asked.
"Bring people back from the dead, killing people, and duplicating wishes," Sejun said simply.
"Sounds like Shen Long is even more powerful than a genie," Gohann whispered to Bulma.
"Who's Shen Long?" Sejun asked.
"Our genie," I answered quickly, "Okay, Plan A... find some lamp around here, Plan B, dig our way out...Or Plan C, blast our way out."
"What's Plan D?" Krillin asked.
"There's no plan D," Yamcha sighed in exasperation.
"There is," I interjected, "All of the above."
Everyone anime dropped.